slog
verb
[ slɒɡ ]
• work hard over a period of time.
• "they were slogging away to meet a deadline"
Similar:
work hard,
toil,
labour,
work one's fingers to the bone,
work like a Trojan/dog,
work day and night,
exert oneself,
keep at it,
grind,
slave,
grub,
plough,
plod,
peg,
slog away,
plug,
put one's back into something,
work one's guts out,
work one's socks off,
knock oneself out,
sweat blood,
kill oneself,
graft,
fag,
bullock,
drudge,
travail,
moil,
work one's balls/arse/nuts off,
work one's ass/butt off,
Opposite:
skive,
take it easy,
• hit (someone or something) forcefully and typically wildly, especially in boxing or cricket.
• "batsmen careering down the pitch to slog the ball up in the air"
slog
noun
• a spell of difficult, tiring work or travelling.
• "it would be a hard slog back to the camp"
Similar:
hard work,
toil,
toiling,
labour,
struggle,
effort,
exertion,
grind,
blood,
sweat,
and tears,
drudgery,
Herculean task,
elbow grease,
graft,
(hard) yakka,
travail,
moil,
trudge,
tramp,
traipse,
plod,
trek,
footslog,
traik,
trog,
yomp,
schlep,
• a forceful and uncontrolled hit, especially in cricket.
• "a slog hit the fielder on the helmet"
Origin:
early 19th century: of unknown origin; compare with slug2.
